On May 18, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Hal Murray wrote: >> Assuming that things are synced closedly enough, that should make it >> work even with enough load on the network to up the latency. > > I've been assuming that the school server would be a NTP server and > that the > XOs would sync to it. Unless the network is loaded or flakier than > I expect, > the XOs should all track the school server "pretty well".
Yes, NTP is one of the services provided by the school servers. Ideally, a laptop's NTP server would be determined by a protocol similar to the one used for internet portal and DNS server --- identifying the "closest" server in the mesh. In any case, network propagation time is taken into account by the NTP (although I believe Hal is far more knowledgable than I in such matters...) Anybody on the XO side know if NTP is part of the build yet ? Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
